Week 6

This week I cleaned up the "Pointcache for liquids" and also started work on float and tracer particle support.

I fixed the issues that I had with caching particles in the "Pointcache" format. The "best case scenario" I described last week is now complete: smoke and liquids run cache smoothly with the Pointache. All in all, I think the move away from caching liquids with .uni files to caching with Pointcache files should pay off. Caching feels much more "Blender-like" now. I also think this will make the transition to the master branch easier. (rB72311c6357e0)

The FLIP particle option is back (I temporarily removed it when setting up drop particles). So in the UI you can now choose between FLIP and/or Drop particles. The corresponding particle systems will get allocated/removed automatically. (rB93d31ac344c5)

I am currently working on the remaining two secondary particle types "Float" and "Tracer". On Blenderartists [1] we decided that it's best to setup separate particle systems for each type. I am therefore now making my particle code more modular (it's better to not just duplicate code when setting up multiple particle systems). (rB47056f2b3a4f)

For the float particles I would like to have a first version next week (maybe I can squeeze in initial tracer particle support too). So what I'll do is work on the Mantaflow side again and refine my secondary particle sampling functions.

On the Blender side, I'll see that I have a very generic particle data getter setup. Again, when reading mutiple particle types it's best to not duplicate too much code.

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